Dr. Jasmeet Bains, ahead by 21 percentage points and more than 12,000 votes two weeks after the general election, declared victory Tuesday over Leticia Perez in the two-Democrat race to represent California's 35th Assembly District.
Brian Smith conceded defeat Monday night in the race for the 3rd District Kern County Board of Supervisors seat, leaving opponent Jeff Flores the apparent winner with 52.51 percent of 39,916 ballots counted as of earlier in the day.
The Kern County Elections Office released its latest round of returns Friday since its last election update Tuesday afternoon.
The Kern County Elections Division on Tuesday updated its ongoing count of ballots from the Nov. 8 general election.
For Flor Alvarado, being a farmworker is to understand endurance.
The Kern County Elections Division released its first big batch of returns since its election night count Friday afternoon.
After an election night marked by statewide victories for moderate Democrats, one of the San Joaquin Valley’s biggest agricultural water districts assessed how best to maintain its influence.
Kern County has an estimated 106,683 unprocessed ballots still to be processed from Tuesday's General Election, according to Mary Bedard, Kern County clerk and registrar of voters.
After trading leads back and forth on election night, David Shepard wound up ahead as of Wednesday afternoon with tens of thousands of ballots to be counted.
Rep. David Valadao extended his lead Wednesday over Assemblyman Rudy Salas in the race for California's 22nd Congressional District seat.
Voters cast their ballots Tuesday in races for the county's largest high school district, the state's biggest K-8 district and several smaller ones.
While the Kern County-backed campaign for a tax hike to support basic emergency services had the simple majority it needed to pass based on early returns, a union-backed measure to install term limits received overwhelming support, based on the same results.
It could be days or even weeks before officials winners can be declared, according to county officials charged with counting this year’s election ballots.
Rep. David Valadao pulled ahead of his Democratic challenger, Assemblyman Rudy Salas, in early results Tuesday night in the hard-fought race for California's 22nd Congressional District seat.
As of late Tuesday evening, with 102 of the 143 precincts' votes counted, Jeff Flores has taken an early lead against Brian Smith.
After months of talk about public safety issues, homelessness and road safety — which most candidates discussed as their pressing concerns for Bakersfield leading up to Tuesday — the voters have cast their ballots.
After winning the primary by nearly 14 percent, Republican candidate David Shepard is hopeful the trend continues, but he'll likely have to wait at least a few days to find out.
State Sen. Shannon Grove, R-Bakersfield, had found great confidence when gaining her win by a large margin against Susanne Gundy after the June primary.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy took a strong lead over Democratic schoolteacher Marisa Wood in balloting Tuesday for California's 20th Congressional District seat.
It's too early to call three separate races that could have a major impact on one of the state's largest high school districts.
Trustees for Areas 2 and 4, somewhat in the middle of the district's boundaries, were on the ballot.
The polls are open Tuesday, Kern County, and another election cycle is here.
Poverty fell in California during the COVID pandemic, recent data shows, largely due to state and national safety net programs, especially the expansion of federal child tax credits.
Kern voters will probably notice at least a couple of differences when they head to the polls as part of the county’s efforts to modernize.
Homelessness. Crime. Social services that struggle to keep up with growing needs.
It’s difficult for housing advocates to criticize Gov. Gavin Newsom because he’s done more to boost production than any other governor in recent memory — but that’s mostly because the bar is so low.
Voters in the city of Bakersfield have been mailed a supplement to Kern County’s Voter Information Guide because the text of the city’s Measure L was not included in the pamphlet sent prior to issuance of mail-in ballots earlier this month.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, unbowed in the face of local criticism while speaking to hundreds Friday morning during a surprise visit to Bakersfield, praised efforts in Kern to develop cutting-edge clean energy technologies that serve California's ambitious climate goals for transitioning away from pe…
Few things agitate drivers — and make politicians sweat — like rising prices at the pump.
TEHACHAPI — Ballot errors have been identified on at least three measures coming before some Tehachapi area voters on Nov. 8.
Among the most cherished hallmarks of American democracy are these: Free and fair elections; the peaceful transfer of power; and the right of the people to independently evaluate and compare the candidates.
On an already-hot Saturday morning in east Bakersfield, Assembly candidate and Kern County Supervisor Leticia Perez stands at the front of the electrical workers’ local union hall, working a crowd of fellow Democrats ready to knock on doors and talk to voters.
Kern elections officials said Monday that mail-in ballots for the Nov. 8 election were sent out last week to all actively registered voters in the county.
If intensity of effort is any indication, the race for Kern County's 3rd District Board of Supervisors seat must be a close one.
Bakersfield is really in a state of flux.
The crime spiral starts small, California attorney general candidate Nathan Hochman said. A criminal goes into a store, steals just shy of $950 in goods from a small business and walks, not runs out, because the lawbreaker knows he won't be prosecuted.
A fentanyl crisis, campus incidents filmed and shared on social media and questions about partisan politics are a few of the topics that have come up in the discussion about the future of the Kern High School District.
State Sen. Melissa Hurtado, D-Sanger, is hoping voters on Nov. 8 will send her back to Sacramento, where she plans to continue work done on behalf of the 14th District for the nearby, newly redrawn 16th District.
It takes faith to go up against a dominant incumbent in a district where registration numbers alone point to another landslide. Schoolteacher Marisa Wood says she has that faith.
In the big race for California's 22nd Congressional District seat, surely there's a lesson to be learned from the results of the June primary. But which lesson?
Two leading senators last week called upon the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of the Interior to step up their game to improve the condition of the nation’s forests and address wildfire problems.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law that's intended to encourage more domestic violence survivors to seek out restraining orders, according to a news release from Assemblyman Rudy Salas, D-Bakersfield, the law's author.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a family leave bill Friday that will enable lower-income workers to recoup up to 90 percent of their income when they take time off to care for a new child or a sick family member.
Kern County’s lawmakers in Sacramento counted a number of wins and "setbacks" in the latest legislative session ahead of Friday’s deadline for Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign or veto any bills on his desk.
Gov. Gavin Newsom this week signed a bill authored by Assemblyman Rudy Salas creating a county redistricting commission.
California’s independent redistricting commission has received generally good reviews for its new maps that voters are using to elect legislators and members of Congress in November.
Statements made Sunday at a Bakersfield church gathering of people running for local school board seats have raised concerns that officials there may have helped recruit, endorsed and solicited campaign contributions on the candidates' behalf in potential violation of the congregation's fede…
During an otherwise congratulatory set of comments Wednesday at a ribbon-cutting for Bakersfield College’s new $65 million Science and Engineering Building, retired Congressman Bill Thomas took the opportunity to note a concern he had about developments in local politics.
City of Bakersfield officials said they know that homelessness is the No. 1 concern facing residents, a problem that creates health and public safety concerns for a variety of reasons.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s last-minute legislative plan for tackling the climate crisis was largely victorious as lawmakers approved laws to set interim targets for 100 percent clean energy and regulate projects to remove carbon from the atmosphere and smokestacks.
Positive Cases Among Kern Residents: 295,863
Deaths: 2,575
Recovered and Presumed Recovered Residents: 288,831
Percentage of all cases that are unvaccinated: 71.75
Percentage of all hospitalizations that are unvaccinated: 83.20
Updated: 12/1/22
